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  1. Sticky Thread Sticky: Death Knight Comprehensive Guide to Death Knight Tanking

    This guide is a compilation work of a lot of things I've been studying and developing that pertain to tanking with a Death Knight. As Kazeyonoma has...

    Posted By Satorri
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    blood, death knight, frost, guide, guides, satorri, tanking, unholy
    • Replies: 271
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    Yesterday 09:23 PM Go to last post
  2. Sticky Thread Sticky: Balancing avoidance ratings

    There have been some questions on how to best balance avoidance stats. As it turns out, the basic rules are pretty simple: Get enough defense so...

    Posted By Roana
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    • Replies: 112
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    01-27-2010 12:10 PM Go to last post
  3. Sticky Thread Sticky: TPS parser: Warrior, Druid, Paladin, Death Knight

    I've updated my tps parser to work for wotlk with support for warriors, paladins, druids, and death knights. It's missing a lot of the previous...

    Posted By bagelbite
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    08-14-2009 12:14 PM Go to last post
  1. Tanking PRot warrior hit cap???

    I am a prot warrior and need to know what the hit cap is for me? my hit is 267= 8.14%.

    Posted By thrudheim
    • Replies: 1
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    Today 10:00 PM Go to last post
  2. Tanking 5% health. Is stam worth more now?

    Now that there's the ICC buff stacking up, it's starting to look to me as though stamina might be preferable to armor, particularly for any warriors...

    Posted By almightypancake
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    • Replies: 107
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    Today 06:30 PM Go to last post
  3. 'Complete' Protection Warrior DPS/TPS spreadsheet

    This thread is purely for the development of the Protection Warrior spreadsheet and the baseline conclusion from the numbers produced. Please keep...

    Posted By WarTotem
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    • Replies: 98
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    Today 06:05 PM Go to last post
  4. Swam's Deathknight Frost Tank Guide

    This Guide is made as of patch 3.3 (ok Lulia Update for ya, let me know what you think) There is a lot out there on Frost tanking and a...

    Posted By Swam
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    Today 05:36 PM Go to last post
  5. Tanking Feral Tank Extra Threat Trick

    Ok , so here is something i was thinking about yesterday , and im looking forward to hear others people thought about it. So, lets say we are in...

    Posted By Fc-Silvermoon
    • Replies: 7
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    Today 04:47 PM Go to last post
  6. Tanking Teaser: Introduction to advanced healer/tank evaluation

    This is a teaser to the full version of "advanced healer/tank evaluation". Since it would take very long to write the full version, and not all the...

    Posted By Deathshay
    deviation, healing, health, incoming damage, tanking, theorycrafting
    • Replies: 16
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    Today 06:47 AM Go to last post
  7. Tanking Looking for Prot Warrior AOE Tanking Build

    So i find myself duel spec'd with a Tanking main spec and a Fury offspec. With the heavy melee train my guild runs it's hard to gear for Fury and be...

    Posted By Ursaul
    • Replies: 16
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    Yesterday 05:23 PM Go to last post
  8. Death Knight PTR 3.3.3 - Death Knight - Tanks

    Death Knight Icy Touch: This ability now causes a very high amount of threat while the death knight is in Frost Presence. Icy Touch threat...

    Posted By dotJEM
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    Yesterday 01:34 PM Go to last post
  9. Tanking Upcoming Parry, Block Changes

    Some upcoming Cata changes from blue: Block Rating - Block is being redesigned to scale better. Blocked attacks will simply hit for 30% less...

    Posted By LogisticSaucer
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    Yesterday 11:29 AM Go to last post
  10. Tanking Caps are confusing me ??

    I'm a dual wield DK frost tank spec (10/54/7). I'm trying to understand what I need for a Hit Cap. At 27% * 32.79 = 886. with NoCS (-98) the hit...

    Posted By Doplar
    • Replies: 11
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    Yesterday 07:33 AM Go to last post
  11. Death Knight DK tanking and D&D

    Having been in innumerable groups with someone asking me why I don't use D&D I'm beginning to wonder...should a DK tank always be using D&D...

    Posted By Lux
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    03-08-2010 08:13 AM Go to last post
  12. Tanking rawr nub needs advice

    i finally started using rawr, and it's really neat, but i'm confused by what it's telling me. this is for bear tanking btw. it's telling me to...

    Posted By lesteel
    • Replies: 3
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    03-07-2010 02:17 AM Go to last post
  13. Death Knight Upcoming WotN change

    From the latest PTR patch notes. I love this change!

    Posted By vine
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    03-06-2010 10:05 PM Go to last post
  14. Warrior In the 102.4% unhittable cap, why the 2.4%?

    I understand that to become unhittable, miss, dodge, parry, and block must hit 102.4% when added together, but why that number? Where does that 2.4%...

    Posted By Dayon
    • Replies: 10
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    03-06-2010 03:28 PM Go to last post
  15. Tanking Tank Classes Differentiation, Viability and Encounter Design

    Tank Classes Differentiation, Viability and Encounter Design I'd like to share a thought I had about current class balance and how it affects...

    Posted By Adrael
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    • Replies: 43
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    03-05-2010 10:53 PM Go to last post
  16. Tanking Bears, Plate Tanks and Armor.

    How has the changes to the plate tank sets (more armor) affected the position of bear tanks? I understand that armor is a key stat in ICC and...

    Posted By Riposoeterno
    • Replies: 11
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    03-05-2010 10:46 PM Go to last post
  17. Tanking ICC geared Death Knight tank's and expertise.

    I'm a blood Dk tank as my main spec and I have always tried to maintain 35+ expertise with expertise food. I recently have gotten Cryptmaker which I...

    Posted By Saintoftaint
    • Replies: 15
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    03-05-2010 03:47 PM Go to last post
  18. Level 80 boss AP

    Since I haven't seen any studies done on level 80 boss AP yet, a hunter and myself did some demo shout tests on Maexxna tonight. The results were...

    Posted By Deckard
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    03-05-2010 06:33 AM Go to last post
  19. Tanking Looking for the Shield Spec vs Focused rage thread

    Anyone know where it is, tried search but i don't know how to use search properly. Thanks

    Posted By Grant
    • Replies: 3
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    03-04-2010 11:21 AM Go to last post
  20. Tanking Which Alliance Races Racials?

    I've seen a few older posts discussing this on other forums but have searched fruitlessly on tankspot so I think this deserves a discussion,...

    Posted By Riptides
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    • Replies: 30
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    03-03-2010 09:42 PM Go to last post
  21. Warrior Reassessing Damage Shield, Vigilance and Imp. Revenge.

    Howdy, With the recent changes in patch 3.3.2 and 3.3 in general. I've been rethinking many talents that I usually just take without question. ...

    Posted By Arikak
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    • Replies: 122
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    03-03-2010 08:24 PM Go to last post
  22. Tanking ICC Blood Princes Tanks?

    My guild has been going through some turmoil so we have had issues with 25m recently and as such broke out into 10 mans last night. I was happy to...

    Posted By Squirrelnut
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    • Replies: 24
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    03-03-2010 02:30 PM Go to last post
  23. Death Knight Death Grip now has a 8 yards minimum range.

    Can anyone on the PTR confirm if this disallows the use of the spell while in melee range of a target? Seems like this would be a very poor...

    Posted By Proletaria
    • Replies: 13
    • Views: 340
    03-03-2010 11:53 AM Go to last post
  24. Tanking Armor. Why I love it, and why you should too.

    Greetings tankspotters. I'm one of our guilds two mainspec tanks, and I've noticed people coming to me for advice. One of the things I've noticed...

    Posted By Martie
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    • Replies: 24
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    03-02-2010 06:39 AM Go to last post
  25. Prot hybrid specs

    I've poked around the forums looking fro some decent articles on Prot Hybrid specs, and found some nice specs for Arms/Prot focusing on using...

    Posted By Thallan
    • Replies: 6
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    03-01-2010 07:58 PM Go to last post
  26. Death Knight Rune Strike & Its Flaws For Tanking

    I have also posted this on the WoW official forums here: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=23140584479&sid=1&pageNo=1 Hello...

    Posted By Tolkien
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    • Replies: 67
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    03-01-2010 08:50 AM Go to last post
  27. Paladin Retribution aura

    Hey everyone, I am having a discussion (big word though) in my guild about the retribution aura. The warrior tank thinks that the retribution aura...

    Posted By Prinscharm
    • Replies: 15
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    03-01-2010 12:38 AM Go to last post
  28. Warrior Warrior Tank opening on Saurfang

    As we all know many DPS often explode with damage on open. Warriors have some problems going from a cold start. If I use Bloodrage to Shout buff...

    Posted By Kulutues
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    • Replies: 24
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    02-28-2010 10:35 AM Go to last post
  29. Warrior Burst threat with...Mocking Blow? Strange but true!

    So, to make a somewhat long story short: events last evening led me to do some testing on Mocking Blow. Along with many Warriors, I hadn't given it...

    Posted By Kojiyama
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    • Replies: 58
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    02-27-2010 06:36 AM Go to last post
  30. Tanking Troubles with Professor Putricide - Slime Puddles

    Hey Tankspot readers. Our guild has a problem with the slime puddles in ICC10. Our Off-Tank is the abomination as Aliena suggested in her guide....

    Posted By Zoldaniex
    advice, encounter, halp! need, professor putrice, puddles, shrink
    • Replies: 19
    • Views: 1,322
    02-26-2010 07:06 PM Go to last post

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